Collection Cleaning and Rearranging: Still Working!

 Just because I was curious, I scrolled through blog entries to see how long I have been working on cleaning and rearranging my collection. I was a bit surprised to see that it's been over three weeks! But, I am getting it done.

Aside from a box going to Good Will and a painting to be hung, the upstairs family room is done and Craig can walk unimpeded into his library.

The spare bedroom library sewing room second model horse room is finished and I've migrated the longer models like Dundee, the Shagya Arabian, Pacer, and others to the deeper shelves in there.

Holding my breath, I cleaned and rearranged the Freeman Leidys, Metlox Poppytrails, Chevals, and other unusual china horses that are in the antique china hutch. I didn't break anyone, thank goodness.

Since I had very recently rearranged the Hagen Renaker minis (in a repurposed media cabinet) I did not do anything to them.

I do still need to do the Hartland shelves but I left that for the time being - I am thinking of selling most of them and wanted to think about that first.

Saturday I made a concerted effort to get started on the shelves in my office, the original horse room. 

And that's where the rearranging really began. I like to group by mold and so that means I get open pockets of space to fill. Almost everything on the bottom three shelves was transferred over from other shelves in the room.

During my spinal fusion in April, several discs were removed and I am shorter as a result. There are times when I can literally feel the difference that that makes and this is one of them. The topmost shelves have always been hard for me to reach; this time, I ended up using a Swiffer Duster on an extension handle to clean them instead of taking the models down individually. I simply could not reach them.

After I'd gotten all the Classics gathered on the narrow shelves by the window, I finished for the day.

I've got some completely empty shelves and then some open spaces on others for playing model horse Jenga when I get back to work this morning. 

Definitely this project will be finished this week - we will have three of our children and their families (and dogs) in town for the 4th of July weekend, so I want to get the collection rearranging and cleaning done by then. 

Wish me luck!